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Chess: Thank You for the Music
★★★★☆ The cult musical’s Broadway revival highlights its addictive ABBA melodies and lively Tim Rice lyrics
In 2008, before a two-night Chess concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, lyricist Tim Rice reflected on the beloved, broken musical he wrote with Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus: “Chess has been that kind of wayward child—you know, that one on drugs that you hope will get right.”
We’ll spare you a complete chronicle of the show’s, ahem, checkered past; that’s why we have theater message boards and subreddits. Chess began in 1984 as a hit concept album: Murray Head’s electro-pop bop “One Night in Bangkok” topped the charts worldwide; to this day, Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson’s “I Know Him So Well,” musical theater’s ultimate wife-mistress song, remains one of the U.K.’s top-selling duets of all time. The 1986 West End production ran for three years, despite a rocky start (director Trevor Nunn stepped in for the ailing Michael Bennett). However, the 1988 reworked Broadway version, with a dialogue-heavy libretto by playwright Richard Nelson, closed after only two months, launching Chess into the pantheon of prized but probably unproduceable musicals. Rice, the aforementioned ABBA composers, and pretty much anyone else with a licensing deal and a dream have been trying to wrangle that wayward child ever since.
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